AFAIK most UBI advocates aren't looking to just throw money at people and tell them they don't need to work. It's not called a Universal Comfortable Income, or

AFAIK most UBI advocates aren't looking to just throw money at people and tell them they don't need to work. It's not called a Universal Comfortable Income, or a Universal Middle Class Income. Unless you're a devout ascetic or minimalist, you'll probably still want other sources of income. The UBI provides you a baseline that can make it easier for people to spend a while retraining, or resist being underpaid for miserable/dangerous work. One of the big potential boons of a UBI is that it could be paired with a rollback of minimum wage/benefit requirements, shifting the point at which automation is strongly incentivized. In such an environment, meaningful research projects with significant low-skill components should have an easy time (at least relative to today) staffing up.